Blindness 1: Blindness
Author:
Jose saramago
Publisher:
Vintage Classics
ISBN:
9780099573586
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Format:
Paperback
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0
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0
Publishing Date:
2017
Number of Pages:
309
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Language:
English
Condition:
New
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped.
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness.